Discussion: weather

I'm reminded of one of my first night trainings with IFK Lidingo soon after I arrived in Stockholm.

A good foot+ of snow fell throughout the day. I called the office to ask what would be happening instead of the planned night O. They laughed at me. A foot of snow wouldn't stop the training. So I showed up and got a lift to the training. We ran at a place called Kårsta with lots of fresh snow on the ground and heavy snow falling.

The lesson I learned was that warm clothes, neoprene socks, and a decent headlamp means you can train in anything.

I guess Missoulians have the same experience.

As an aside, here is a map from Kårsta (not my map, but I ran that race in M21):

https://www.tullingesk.se/kartarkiv/show_map.php?u...

That’s a nice map, and demonstrates some real navigation - lots of investigation of the terrain.

My fav memory of my year in Sweden was running in a group of ~15 women at night with the snow falling through the light of the headlamps.

A funnier memory was when I completely overdressed for my first night orienteering, assuming I’d be standing still, freezing, lost in a swamp, and avoiding moose for most of the evening.

I am curious whether the area is really called Blue Mountain, or whether you named it that just because there have to be maps called Blue Mountain everywhere worth orienteering.

Believe it or not, it is actually called Blue Mountain. It's at least the third map with that name I've run on, in addition to trail runs in NSW's Blue Mountains.

0°F is not bad, Russians eat ice-cream in sub-zero-°F temps

I suspect my Australian fire weather forecasting colleagues are going to find it hard to get their heads around the idea of a major wildfire burning in below 0F/-20C (as will be the case in Colorado when the cold front reaches them). Presumably using aircraft to drop water on the fire doesn't work so well in such conditions....

Great to see GrizO is doing well (by the way Mark Adams' nickname was Grizzly Adams).

Yeah, O need not stop once the snow falls.

Consider organizing a snowshoe O.

Snowshoe orienteering is a great activity. For beginners it is 'navigation on training wheels' once a few good orienteers have broken trail and done the nav.

You certainly picked your day: it reached -29F at Potomac (not too far east of Missoula), which is 9 degrees lower than anything previously recorded anywhere in the US (outside Alaska) so early in the season. I'm struggling to think of a more significant cold extreme (in terms of the scale of the record broken) anywhere in the world in the last decade.

Blue Mtn might be the land-form analogy to Springfield